A Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Beijing with a “defective component” required firefighters to be on standby after landing in Hong Kong on Friday, with all passengers and crew members eventually disembarking from the Airbus A330-300 aircraft safely.
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Flight CX331, which departed from Beijing on Friday afternoon and landed in Hong Kong just before 8.30pm, had a “suspected abnormal system indication after landing”, according to a Cathay spokeswoman.
Firefighters were on standby as a precaution, she added, but “the aircraft taxied to the parking bay as usual, and the passengers safely disembarked”. No injuries were reported.
The spokeswoman said subsequent troubleshooting identified a “defective component” that was fixed according to “standard aircraft maintenance procedures”.
According to Cathay’s website, the plane involved was an Airbus A330-300.
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Multiple technical issues have surfaced in the model in recent years, including in August last year, when a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight failed to take off on the runway at Kaohsiung International Airport in Taiwan after one of its engines burst into flames.